Chinese Heinkel 50 (66) Werke Nummers etc. question

[Kari Lumppio]

Hello!

I would really appreciate this data to help my quest for solving the big puzzle Heinkel 50 production run and Werke Nummern blocks.

Does anyone know how many Heinkel 50/66 were actually sent to China? Or to Japan for that matter. Are their Werke Nummern known? Were any of them civil registered in Germany?

I've collected pieces of He 50 informations from here and there and many great fellows have offered their help and data. But it still seems impossible to brake the Heinkel 50 production run to logical batches. Even the subtype allocation is confusing (at least to me).

He 50 was used by NSGr 11 and knowing WNr - Stkz ties would help to bring more light to many individual cases where only WNr is given. NSGr 11 made use of the original Stammkennzeichen in a way where the first two letters were painted over with the unit code 3W. The rest were left as is. What really identified the individual plane for the personnell was the number painted on the fin (according a former He 50 mechanic). All He 50 were built before Stkz intorduction and seem to have received Kennzeichen in WNr order (within the unit not "globally"!). With additional data it might be possible to solve the subtypes of the individual NSGr 11 He 50 where code is known.

In some other forum I saw "Rasmussen" to give some data of the Hs 123 sent to China. Is similar data available for Heinkel 50?


Thanking in advance,

Kari